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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Electronic Design Automation"”.
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Routing algorithms for electronic design automation
In electronic design automation (EDA), routing is one of the most important tasks for both printed circuit boards (PCB) and integration circuits (IC). After placement, which determines the location of each component on a PCB or element of an IC, the routing step adds wires needed to properly …
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New methods for electronic design automation problems
… marches towards the 14nm node and beyond, EDA (electronic design automation) has rapidly increased in importance with ever more complicated modern integration circuit (IC) designs. This presents many new issues for EDA including design, manufacturing, and packaging. Challenging EDA problems in …
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New strategies for electronic design automation problems
… towards 22 nm technology and beyond, circuit design has become unprecedentedly omplicated. This presents many new challenges for EDA (electronic design automation), such as lack of effective tools for analog circuit or high-volume and high-frequency printed circuit board (PCB) design, the …
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Algorithms for DFM in electronic design automation
… the limit of physics at the expense of design flexibility. On the other hand, IC designs inevitably becomes more complex to meet the increasing demand of computational power. To close this gap, design for manufacturing (DFM) becomes the key to enable an easy and low-cost IC fabrication. …
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Advances in parallel programming for electronic design automation
… not only the chip capacity but also the circuit design complexity. How does one efficiently design a chip with millions or billions transistors? This has become a challenging problem in the integrated circuit (IC) design industry, especially for the developers of electronic design automation …
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ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS AND DESIGN STUDY FOR HETEROGENEOUS MONOLITHIC 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
… Three Dimensional (3D) Integrated Circuit (IC) Design, which is the focus of this work, is another promising alternative for going beyond Moore’s Law. 3D IC provides power, performance, and area (PPA) benefits at full-chip level, orthogonal to the transistor improvements by stacking multiple …
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Application of Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization in PCB Component Placement
Designing a printed circuit board (PCB) is a complex process that involves creating a schematic, placing components, ensuring that every component is routable, and performing simulations to predict the behavior of the PCB before it is manufactured. With the rise of technological innovations, the …
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Use of machine learning in radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) development
… inaccuracy happens because the existing electronic design automation (EDA) software, and the underlying physics-based IC models, fail to fully capture the nonlinear, frequency-dependent RF parasitic effects. To overcome this problem, in this thesis we propose the use of machine learning …
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Event-Driven Distributed Task Orchestration System with Applications to Automated PCB Design
Printed circuit board (PCB) design is the process of taking a board schematic and design constraints and realizing a manufacturable design. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software allows humans to manually design PCB’s by placing components and routing the electrical connections required. …
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Behavioural synthesis of analogue integrated circuits
… task despite huge strides in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in recent decades. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are biologically inspired search algorithms which have previously shown some promise in this field. Their ability to form the basis of a practically useful synthesis …
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Lab-bc: A Serverless Computing Platform for MIT Educators
… we investigate the deployment of real-world Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in the digital design classroom. Hands-on experience with these tools is essential to prepare students for state-of-the-art research and industry settings. However, modern EDA tools such as Xilinx’s Vivado …
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Efficient arithmetic for high speed DSP implementation on FPGAs
… division and square root cores for use in a new Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool for EnTegra, which is targeted at FPGA implementation of DSP systems. Further to this, a new technique for predicting the accuracy of CORDIC systems computing vector magnitudes and cosines/sines is presented. …
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Biological Circuit Design via BioCAD Tools
… BioCAD, a novel computational tool able to design optimal and robust biological circuits. In BioCAD, the main idea is to use Pareto optimality and the Electronic Design Automation methods for Systems and Synthetic Biology. However, BioCAD is a general purpose tool and can be seen as well as …
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Accelerating Hardware Simulation on Multi-cores
Electronic design automation (EDA) tools play a central role in bridging the productivity gap for designing complex hardware systems. However, with an increase in the size and complexity of today's design requirements, current methodologies and EDA tools are unable to effectively mitigate the …
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Design Automation and Evaluation Of Emerging 3D – IC Technology Using Stacked Horizontal Nanowires
… and manufacturing pathway for SN3D as well as designed logic and memory circuits. Nevertheless, any emerging 3-D IC approach has to find a pathway to fit into IC design phase based on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools before fabrication. In this thesis, we investigate the EDA tool-based …
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Circuit Design Methods with Emerging Nanotechnologies
… have been developed to enhance future circuit design and computation. These nanotechnologies have shown promising potentials to achieve magnitude improvement in performance and integration density. The substitution of CMOS transistors with nano-devices is expected to not only continue along the …
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An Intent-based Neural Monte Carlo Tree Search Framework for Synthesis of Printed Circuit Boards
… joint optimization problem that has eluded automation in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry until now. Past approaches to create algorithms that intelligently learn to solve these problems have not yet widely been seen. Cadence Design Systems, affiliated with the author, works on …
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Efficient Graph Techniques for Partial Scan Pattern Debug and Bounded Model Checkers
… VLSI technology have led to more complex digital designs and shrinking transistor sizes. Due to these developments, design verification and manufacturing test have gained more importance and 70 % of the design expenditure in on validation processes. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools play a …
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Attacking complexity in logic synthesis of asynchronous circuits
Most of the microelectronic circuits fabricated today are synchronous, i.e. they are driven by one or several clock signals. Synchronous circuit design faces several fundamental challenges such as high-speed clock distribution, integration of multiple cores operating at different clock rates, …
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